Every Christmas or holiday season, you take your tree down with the Christmas lights in one big tangled mess. Everyone's done it at some point! Follow these directions in this article, to help you wind the Christmas light up neatly, and keep them from tangled up after the Christmas tree is down.

Steps

1

Remove the strand's power cord from the main source of power.

2

Remove any garland, or any obstacle that may interfere with the removal of the lights themselves from the tree.

3

Take off the strand from the Christmas tree, carefully. They might not come off very easily, as they themselves may be wrapped up between the branches or may be stuck to some of the branches. As you pull the strand off from the tree, let these lay gently in an unused travel path that is free from the movement of any sources of other people.

4

Grab the wire that is between the last (end-most) bulb at the bottom of the strand of lights and the next one.

5

Fold the wire, using your free hand, creating a v-shape.

6

Repeat these steps, with the wire forming a W-shape.

7

Scrunch these bulbs together until they all come to a center point. If they have a wide-enough central point between the bulbs, you may even be able to keep one side of lights on one side of your hand, and the others on the other side of your hand,as the source page shows.

8

Keep repeating these steps, until you are up to the very beginning of the bulb.

9

Lay these carefully down on a firm table.

10

Use your one free hand to loop the one end of the strand around the back of the strand. Plug the two ends of power cord together, if they have the specialized attachment.

Tips

Under parental supervision, allow and help your child put away these lights. Make sure you (a person over the age of 18) or a parent unplug these lights. Sometimes a smaller hand is able to get a better grip on smaller, tighter spaces of the strand. Especially useful when a child says that "I wanna' do it!"!

Warnings

Do not ever wrap these lights around your hand, otherwise it'll just create a big tangled weave of a mess you'll have to deal with, the very next year (that you've always hated to deal with year-after-year, saying that you would, when you know you wouldn't.